PRINCETON, N.J. -- The drama of the 2011-12 Ivy
League men’s basketball season comes down to its final two
full weekends, beginning with a matchup of the top two teams this
upcoming Saturday night.

Harvard enters the final weekend of February with a chance to
grab at least a share of the regular-season title with big
back-to-back games against Princeton Friday night and Penn Saturday
night at Lavietes Pavilion. The Crimson is looking to re-establish
another program milestone and get its 24th win its season mark of
23 just accomplished a year ago.

Princeton comes into the weekend with its Ivy title hopes alive,
just sitting two games back in the loss column to Harvard. The
Tigers are riding a League-best four-game winning streak and have
designs on sweeping the season series with the Crimson for the
third time in four seasons.

Penn stands just one game back of Harvard, setting up a
potential showdown for the top spot Saturday night. The Quakers are
winners of three straight and eight of their last 10 with three
games remaining.

Yale’s hopes for the League crown are very much alive as
well with the Bulldogs hosting Columbia and Cornell. A weekend
sweep by Yale would certainly add to the storylines of the final
Friday-Saturday of Ivy play over the first weekend in March.

"Inside Ivy League Basketball" is hosted by Dan
Loney and Brian Seltzer and takes an
in-depth look at all the news and notes surrounding Ivy men’s
and women’s basketball on and off the courts during the
2011-12 season. The 12-episode show debuted Thursday, Nov. 10 at 7
p.m. on BlogTalkRadio.com (blogtalkradio.com/insideivyleaguebasketball) and is
available on-demand via BlogTalkRadio and
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Each episode is packed with highlights, statistics and expert
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PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Penn senior guard Zack Rosen (Colonia, N.J.) was
the catalyst in the Quakers’ wins over Cornell and Columbia
to sit alone in second place in the Ivy League standings entering
the final two weekends of play. Rosen figured in 26 straight points
late in the win over Cornell, scoring 17 and assisting on the other
nine. In the final four minutes, he scored 11 straight points to
turn a 59-55 deficit into a 66-62 lead, then fed Miles
Cartwright for a dagger three-pointer before hitting two
more free throws to ice it. Rosen led Penn in scoring and
rebounding with 14 points and six rebounds in the overtime win over
Columbia. Rosen sent the game into overtime with a tying free throw
with two seconds left in regulation. On the game-winning play in
the extra session, he drew a double team then set a screen on
Fran Dougherty's man, allowing Dougherty cut to
the hoop, catch and lay up an alley-oop pass from Cartwright all in
one motion for the game-winning basket with 0.5 second
remaining.

Rosen's Statistics for the Week

MIN

FG-A

PCT

3FG-A

PCT

FT-A

PCT

REB

A

B

S

PTS

vs. Cornell

39

8-17

0.471

5-10

0.500

4-4

1.000

5

6

0

3

25

vs. Columbia

43

5-16

0.312

3-7

0.429

1-2

0.500

6

5

0

1

14

TOTALS

41.0

13-33

0.394

8-17

0.471

5-6

0.833

5.5

5.5

0.0

2.0

19.5

ROOKIE OF THE WEEK
Dartmouth freshman forward Gabas Maldunas
(Panevezys, Lithuania) averaged a double-double (15.5 ppg, 10.0
rpg) in the two games over the weekend, helping the Big Green end
its eight-game slide with a win over Brown. But first, Maldunas put
up a season-high 23 points -- just the third 20-point game of the
season by a Dartmouth player -- and hauled in 11 rebounds to
register his fourth double-double of the season in a nine-point
loss to Yale. Against Brown, he was not far from another
double-double with eight points on 4-of-7 shooting and nine boards.
Maldunas filled up the stat sheet in the win with two assists and
personal bests in blocks (4) and steals (3).